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Feel free to submit a recommendation for a course or for criteria to be used in determining the top 10. This will be a changing and dynamic list of independent study courses (not sponsored) that have gotten great feedback both on content and with the consumer's experience with the process and materials. Dr. Finnerty reserves all rights to the Top Ten List, though you are welcome to repost it provided credit/a link is given to PsychContinuingEd.com. The early versions of this list will be a work in progress noting beneficial features of some courses such as transparency of content (such as companies allowing you to see the course content online or those based on books prior to purchase). Also, price of course is an important feature since there is a wide range of cost per credit ratios in the industry, and some companies even allow subscription discounts. I am also working on a list of Free Online Continuing Education Courses. If you know of Free CE or Free sample courses with CE credits that are not yet listed on this site please email me about it.

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Links to sites offering Psychology continuing education courses or listings Please feel free to suggest a site by emailing toddfinnerty@toddfinnerty.com Please feel free to give your colleagues feedback to help them choose courses in the future as well as read other peoples' experiences with course providers at the public Psych Continuing Education Blog. ABED Continuing Ed www.psychceu.com ABED Continuing Ed! APA, APT, BRN, CA BBS, FL, NAADAC, NASW, NBCC, OH, STA & TX Approved Continuing Education provider for psychologists, play therapists, mental health professionals, and nursing professionals. I got a chuckle from this quote on the site "yes..you REALLY can take your continuing education units in bed!" Academic Review Academic Review has both purchasing individual courses as well as allowing you to buy "subscription plans" where you pay for a number of credits (pretty inexpensive per credit, actually) and put them towards the courses you want to take. It is another one of those sites that lists the course titles without much other information such as the author or a brief abstract/summary and so you have to click on the links for details. The selection of courses include: Disaster Response Handbook for the Mental Health Professions (psychological first aid), a course which uses the text: A Casebook of Psychotherapy Integration, a 15 CE course for $149 based on: Helping Children Cope With Disasters and Terrorism, as well as an 18 CE course for $144 (as of 3/2008): Clinical Neuropsychology: A Pocket Handbook For Assessment. Affect Plus Affect Plus offers high quality, nationally approved continuing education for psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors and marriage and family therapists. A provider of CE courses since 1988, we offer a learning experience that is worth your time and money. We carefully select relevant books and online material authored by experts in the field. You can count on dependable and helpful service before or after ordering our CE courses. ALL course materials are included in one low price...There are no extra steps or cost of ordering books separately. Courses include an online or by mail option. CE courses include Ethics, ADHD, Adolescent Therapy, Bipolar Disorder, Children and Families, Compassion Fatigue, Depression, Domestic Violence, Dream Work, Expert Witness, Grief, Loneliness, Medical Errors, OCD, Older Adults and Aging, PhotoTherapy, PTSD, Psychopharmacology, Sexual Abuse, Stepfamilies, Solution-focused Brief Therapy, and more. (APA and NBCC -approved provider.) Ethics Course Alert: Check out Ethical Decision-Making: Dual Relationships and Boundary Issues at this site by Kenneth Pope, Ph.D., ABPP, Jeffrey N. Younggren, Ph.D., ABPP, Janet L.Sonne, Ph.D., Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D. and Glen O. Gabbard, M.D. I haven't taken it yet but it looks good. One thing I like about this course is that it uses materials available on Dr. Ken Pope's website that you can review before signing up for the course. The course materials are available for viewing prior to purchase. I haven't taken this course yet, I'd be interested in your experience with it if you do (Dr. Pope is also an author/ed of a number of books including: The MMPI, MMPI-2 & MMPI-A in Court: A Practical Guide for Expert Witnesses and Attorneys and How To Survive And Thrive As A Therapist: Information, Ideas, And Resources For Psychologists In Practice Alexander, Ph.D. (Christopher J.) alexanderphd.com credits based on books- (primarily child related, especialy attachment and adoption issues) still appears heavily postal mail based. The American Psychological Association (APA) The APA has a lot of resources for continuing education in Psychology. In addition to requirements, there are both listings of conference calendars as well as home study courses on the site. I have done some distance education through the APA with some online articles I downloaded from there and it worked quite smoothly. You can also check out this list of APA approved sponsors of continuing education. I don't intend to list any non-APA approved providers on this site without calling your attention to that fact. You can also download a PDF of APA's independent study catalog or request a copy from them. There are a few course options in the onlince academy including topics on Chronic Fatigue & Fibromyalgia and many more in the list of independent study programs based on DVDs, books or journal articles. For example, among the selections is a DVD-working with headaches; A cognitive therapy DVD w/ Dr. Judith Beck; and CEs based on texts such as: Acute Stress Disorder: A Handbook of Theory, Assessment, and Treatment Caring for Ourselves: A Therapist's Guide to Personal and Professional Well-Being Clinical Hypnosis and Self-Regulation: Cognitive-Behavioral Perspectives (Dissociation, Trauma, Memory, and Hypnosis Book Series) The Expert Expert Witness: More Maxims and Guidelines for Testifying in Court Expert Witnesses in Child Abuse Cases: What Can and Should Be Said in Court Healing From Within: The Use of Hypnosis in Women's Health Care Neuropsychological Assessment of Dementia and Depression in Older Adults: A Clinician's Guide Personality Disorders and the Five-Factor Model of Personality Psychological Assessment of Adult Posttraumatic States: Phenomenology, Diagnosis, and Measurement You're on: Consulting for Peak Performance Association for Advanced Training in the Behavioral Sciences (AATBS) AATBS As much as I joke remembering how expensive EPPP test materials were, AATBS courses appear surprisingly inexpensive. They even have a FREE 1 CE online video course (video apparently by the Pentagon Channel) at Free 1 credit PTSD course There are a number of selections here and probably worth checking out, including inexpensive listings of empirically validated treatments for various disorders, though its hard to comment on quality since I have never used them before and haven't reviewed the material. CE 4 LESS CE4Less.com has online courses and is advertising unlimited courses for one price. In addition, they seem to be offering free ces including three free ethics courses you can take online. Some of their courses they provide the materials and it looks like they also have quite a few that are also based on books. A few of the book selections include: Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents, Second Edition Assessment of Children: Cognitive Applications The OASIS Guide to Asperger Syndrome: Completely Revised and Updated: Advice, Support, Insight, and Inspiration Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders, Second Edition Bipolar Disorder: A Cognitive Therapy Approach Treatments That Work With Children: Empirically Supported Strategies for Managing Childhood Problems Assessment of Eating Disorders Domestic Violence Sourcebook, The Treating Gambling Problems (Wiley Treating Addictions series) Essentials of Treatment Planning Clinicians in Court: A Guide to Subpoenas, Depositions, Testifying, and Everything Else You Need to Know Post-traumatic and Acute Stress Disorders: The Latest Assessment and Treatment Strategies Children's Use of Board Games in Psychotherapy CE Studies www.cestudies.com list 12 home study courses based on books that would be of interest to psychotherapists. The books include: Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, Handbook Of Anger Mangement: Individual, Couple, Family, and Group Approaches (Haworth Handbook Series in Psychotherapy) (Haworth Handbook Series in Psychotherapy), The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (Basic Principles Into Practice Series), Solution Focused Group Therapy: Ideas for Groups in Private Practise, Schools,, Pathways to Change, Second Edition: Brief Therapy with Difficult Adolescents, Solution-Focused Therapy with Children: Harnessing Family Strengths for Systemic Change, Emphasizing the Interpersonal in Psychotherapy: Families and Groups in the Era of Cost Containment, Group Work And Aging: Issues In Practice, Research, And Education (Published Simultaneously as the Journal of Gerontological So) (Published Simultaneously as the Journal of Gerontological So), Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy for Specific Problems and Populations, Handbook Of Remotivation Therapy (Haworth Handbook Series in Psychotherapy) (Haworth Handbook Series in Psychotherapy) Breaking Through to Teens: A New Psychotherapy for the New Adolescence. CEU 4 U www.ceu4u.com offers ces for a number of disciplines. Some highlights of this provider are courses such as "Interventions in Morbid Obesity" by Dr. Gerald Strauss and medical/health psychology courses by Dr. Matthew Nessetti. If you register on the site you are welcome to enter my email address (toddfinnerty@toddfinnerty.com) as the person who referred you if you want to. CE Unit www.ceunit.com/ You'll be greeted with a picture of Freud when you first go to this site, but you will also be greeted with a $10 per credit ad. There is a $40 ethics course for example, so if you're looking for deals you may want to check this one out. You are able to view the course study material, with that being said, however, the selection of courses doesn't appear particularly exciting to me at this time, anyway Concept Healthcare cohealth.org This sitewill be of interest primarily to individuals working in nursing home settings. A current drawback appears to be limited visibility in terms of how many CE credits you get per course. Continuing Education Central http://www.continuingeducationcentral.com appears to do both in person and independent study, at this time there are a number of courses but only approx. 7 courses which are touted as "downloadable 24 hours a day!" If you were going to only click on a few of these links, I don't think this would be one to try first. Continuing Ed Courses .net http://www.continuingedcourses.net/ offers online psychology courses and lets you view the course materials on their website prior to taking the class/paying for the ce. Notable course authors there include Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D. (written books including ADHD and the Nature of Self-Control), William W. Deardorff, Ph.D., ABPP (books include Clinical Health Psychology in Medical Settings: Practitioner's Guidebook) and John Preston, Psy.D., ABPP (books include Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Ridiculously Simple (Medmaster Ridiculously Simple)). There is more than one ethics course for under $100 dollars and and Ethics for Psychologists in Medical Settings course which includes a section on E-Therapy and Internet Therapy. E-EdCredits.com e-edcredits.com aka psychcredits.com. The articles are free to review and they advertise $10 per ce credit, the number of courses appear limited and are generally focused on eating disorders, child custody and teen suicide. Genesis Continuing Education genesisce.org Genesis Continuing Education Group offers home study continuing education for Psychologists, Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Professionals and Master level Clinical Social Workers. Psychotherapy and spirituality appear to be an interest to this provider and you may want to check them out if it is an interest to you. This provider's courses appear to be based on books which you order and not online articles like many of the others, the books include: The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know and Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment Headington Institute headington-institute.org Has a 6 Ce assisting humanitarian workers with acute stress disorder course. Health Education Network HEALTH EDucation Network is a continuing education provider for professionals working in mental health, medical, long term care, social services, and education settings. While there is an order form for products, there doesn't really appear to be a description of any home study courses and this is primary for in person ces at this point. Health Forum Online healthforumonline.com/ HealthForumOnline is a nationally-approved provider (APA, NBCC, ASWB, PSNA, CA-BBS) of continuing education (CE) courses for psychologists, counselors, social workers, nurses, and allied health care professionals, now offers over 50 online continuing education (CE) courses focusing exclusively on health psychology and behavioral medicine. All HealthForumOnline CE courses are convenient, cost-effective, theory- and evidence-based, and tailored to provide the optimal benefit for health care providers treating the biopsychosocial aspects of illness. To serve our targeted health care providers, our ever expanding online course library offers numerous health-related categories including: Ethics, Aging/Gerontology, HIV/AIDS, Cultural Diversity, Long-term Care, Clinical Interventions, Women's Health, Sexuality/Reproduction, Chronic/Acute Illness, Infectious Disease, Cancer Adaptation, Pediatric Behavioral Medicine, Spirituality, Neuropsychology, Assessment, Chemical Dependency, Eating Disorders, Group Therapy, Infectious Disease, and Pain Management. All courses can be accessed and completed anywhere you have Internet access -- view your course online, complete the test, and print your own CE certificate. Individuals interested in Health Psychology may want to check them out in particular, as they appear to have many courses that would be of interest to you. Home Study Credit .com www.homestudycredit.com I haven't looked in to this one too much yet, but the report you can review course materials free and are also advertising 1 Free CE credit course "Brief Intervention for Anxiety Disorders with Children." I'll likely be back to check this one out. J & K Seminars J&K Seminars tapes there live CE programs with nationally known presenters and makes them available (audio) as home study courses. One thing I found interesting about the brochure was that if you got the materials from someone who already took the course you could pay for just the test and not re-ordering the materials. Presenters arewell-known and include Robert Hare, Ph.D (author of: Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us) ), Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D (author of: Cognitive-Behavior Modification: An Integrative Approach (The Plenum Behavior Therapy Series)) and Mary A. Fristad, Ph.D. (author of: Raising a Moody Child: How to Cope with Depression and Bipolar Disorder) and Thomas Moore, Ph.D. (author of: Care of the Soul : A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life). Learn 4 Health / Alliance learn Learn4Health.com allows you to search online courses by state and profession. See also alliancelearn.com I'm not sure which one if not both is the affiliate. Life Align www.lifealign.com an attractive site advertising only 4 web-based courses on working with cancer patients. MEDS-PDN www.meds-pdn.com/ has approx 7 home study courses for Psychologists. They actually appear a bit higher in price and there isn't as much information available about the courses on the site. National Association for Continuing Education www.naceonline.com National Association for Continuing Education offers web and book based courses and the prices appear reasonable. They do appear to have a long list of courses, including ethics selections, which are worth a look: home study courses. Some of the courses based on books (you don't pay for the book if you already own it) are based on: OCD in Children and Adolescents: A Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Manual, Handbook of Learning Disabilities and Navigating the Insurance Maze: The Therapist's Complete Guide to Working with Insurance -- And Whether You Should. The provider appears to be advertising sales and the prices are competitive, though I don't know if they just have the sale all the time to make it look like a better deal. National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology National Register onlince ce articles Net CE/ CME Resource www.netce.com inexpensive, however courses for Psychologists appeared primarily related to substance abuse, though a few were not. On Good Authority www.OnGoodAuthority.com courses appear based on downloadable MP3 audio programs (tape and CD options as well). Pace Seminars http://www.paceseminars.com/ has only a few homestudy courses on video, however you apparently can video share with each person paying $30 (plus presumably the cost of the video). PESI www.pesi.com/ You may actually wish to check out the mental health portion at PESI mental health. This is primarily for in-person ce's though there is a link for webinars. Professional Development Resources www.pdresources.org advertises a 10% off discount in the National Psychologist. They also reportedly administer the 1 credit CE quiz you can get by reading the National Psychologist Psy Broadcasting Corporation www.psybc.com offers online seminars and conferences, at first glance they appear to offer a bit different approach and I'll need to look at this one a bit further Psychotherapy .net Psychotherapy.net advertises some ce courses generally really to, you guessed it, psychotherapy ;) There appears to be some that may be of interest to psychodynamic folks. PsychSem.com psychsem.com advertises multimedia online classes, some of what I looked at had recorded presentations with both the powerpoint and audio files available for review prior to purchase. U.S. Journal Training usjt.com US Journal training appears worth a look. There are a number of courses available that are a small number of credits each if you're just trying to put yourself over the hump of your required CE total. Zur Institute zurinstitute.com You will find a number of ethics selections as well as private practice related coursework in addition to some topics you would probably not see many other places. Individuals engaged in the practice of psychotherapy would likely want to look over the courses which are conveniently displayed on the home page. A few NON APA Accredited Providers Here are a few non APA accredited providers which some Psychologists may find useful, however they are likely to be of more interest to nurses, social workers and counselors. Please check their accreditation pages to be sure they will be acceptable to your state board, otherwise you may need to submit them for individual review and they may or may not be accepted: AAA CEUs: www.aaaceus.com Fast CEUs: www.fastceus.com Inner Landscape / Site CEU:www.siteceu.com> Quantum Units Education: www.quantumunitsed.com Additional Sites I'm watching with the same check the accreditations page warning: ceu-hours.com professional boundaries .com CE units at home .com virtualcs.com/ spiritualcompetency.com NYI CBT .org texcepe.com achancetoheal.org care2learn.com Sponsored Links

Featuring The Top Ten Psychology Independent Study Continuing Education Courses

and Featuring a list of Free Online Continuing Education courses

Check out PTSD: The Wound Within, A FREE 1 credit coursed based on a video from the Pentagon Channel offered at AATBS. The Description: "Exploring the debilitating condition of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. You'll meet service members whose physical battlefield injuries have healed, but yet emotional wounds linger on." You can watch the video online. This sounds like a relevant course given the number of soldiers "coming home," and the price is right. This provider also offers a number of other inexpensive courses.

Check out homestudycredit.com for a 1 credit FREE course "Brief Interventions for Anxiety Disorders with Children."

Featured Online Ethics courses:

I also had to fulfill my ethics credits and went ahead and did a course I'm actually considering for the initial top ten list or atleast a featured ethics course list. Its an ethics course "Ethical Decision-Making: Dual Relationships and Boundary Issues." currently described in the Affect Plus directory listing. I recently took this course and found many positives, though it was in my mind of course, inherrently flawed because it was an ethics course and I'd rather not have to sit through one of those ;) I take solace in the fact that I actually ended up investing much less time than I would have if I had gone out somewhere to take an ethics course, even though this one was 4 hours and only 3 are required in Ohio (I don't think it actually took me 4 full hours to complete though). I will use this course as an example of things I find helpful in an online course, however. You are able to view the materials before you purchase so you can be sure you want to actually read it. You can print out the test before you start and answer the questions open book as you go through the materials, and the test questions logically follow the text, answering the questions in order as you proceeed. While at some points the language was a bit psychodynamic for me, the material was relevant and boundaries are something that comes up in ethics discussions enough. The course certificate was immediately available to print out upon completion. My only one warning was that there was a 5 point discussion question at the end of the test that appeared to be a gimme as the irections stated "you may write as much or as little as you wish," however upon scoring the test my concise, one sentence answer was "too short to receive credit." Given that it was open book I didn't even have to answer this question to pass and get the certificate though. I'll close my thoughts on this with a quote from Dr. Ken Pope on one of the articles that the course is based on, it "is one of the essential works that every clinician, supervisor, expert witness, and member of a licensing board or ethics committee should read and be familiar with."

Courses which familiarize professionals with Social Security and other programs

Healthforumonline.com has a course called Adult Mental Health Social Security Disability (SSD) Report Writing: Guiding Health Professionals through the Maze.

Interesting courses for those involved in disability consulting

Special Section: Disaster and Crisis Response

More links in this section soon (under development)
Academic Review is offering a $55 dollar, 5 CE course on Preventing School Shootings with material prepared by the US Govt.

The APA is a good site to check out for this, for example they have a course on Evidence Based Group Treatments for Survivors of Catastrophic Trauma.

The ICISF is the place to look for a calendar of conferences if you're interested in CISM-specific training.

If you like the idea of getting certifications, etc. along with your CEs why not check out the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress

News and New Features to be Added

Also to be developed: course "favorite lists" by topic- feel free to suggest topics that we can begin to catalog favorite courses under- such as child psychology, custody evaluations, forensic psychology ethics, etc.

Continuing Education Tips/Links

Please feel free to offer tips and suggestions on the yahoo group, forum or e-mail me and I will post them here:

Some of the online ce providers offer some of their courses for free, or have even more deep discounts if you go with a subscription plan, etc. Also, if you're looking for a CE program as long as one based on a book, most appear to have a separate price for the ce credit/test and the book is separate (no purchase necessary). You could (a)shop around for the book such as with amazon, or if you're not sure you want to own it why not get it from the library (inter-library loan if necessary). I plan to start a collection of links to some of the free courses out there, as well.

Testing companies tend to offer continuing education related to their tests (they're beginning to remind me of a "lite" version of drug companies ;), You may want to look for free "webinars" on tests though if you're interested in learning about them and deciding whether you're going to buy it as opposed to paying lots of money for a sponsored infomercial. If you're interested in new Psychological tests that may be coming out in the future such as the new Wechsler Adult Intellgence Scale 4th edition (WAIS-IV), or the WMS-IV or MMPI-2-RF and would like directions to find tests and resources related to psych testing I have a page for that ;)

If you are interesed in specific CE topic areas, why not take the time to perform a yahoo or google search to locate organizations related to that topic and see if they have a calendar of conferences/courses or even online ce. You might even be interested in hearing a specific person speak (perhaps before they die/retire which is really what has motivated my wife and I to go to the APA Convention in the past) which could lead you to their website or even emailing them with questions about upcoming presentations.

Have a hospital or other site nearby with grand rounds? You could go worse places for lunch (though if it was on a pharmaceutical company's dime who knows?).

You could check out your state psychological association's website, they may offer independent study courses.

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